What configuration your personal AR ends up in is, well, personal.
The popularity of them has given rise to congfigurations that didn't exist when I started.
AIM Surplus is selling an upper that I wish had been around when I built my first one.
Here are some pictures from their web site.
That's a dissipater configuration with the gas port in the mid-length position instead of the more "traditional" carbine location.
I've long felt that if you have to have a 16" barrel then a middy is the gas-system to run. What a dissy gets you is a rifle's sight radius and longer handguards. You lose the ability to mount a normal bayonet, but it's the lug that freaks the antis out, and it's still present.
Well lookie there, more mid length gas system dissipator uppers for me to choose from. Even comes with a bayonet lug, so I can justify buying a ridiculous dissipator bayonet.
ReplyDeleteWhen you first mentioned yours I didn't think middy style existed.
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